Non-profit scientific research organization Betterhumans Inc is working to create affordable solutions for lengthening your lifespan and reversing the effects of aging
Health, Family, and Time are top priorities for humans across the globe. Having the ability to control our life expectancy, the quality of our health, and our family’s long-term well-being has been a dream that many attribute to a futuristic reality, a discovery made decades or even centuries away. Amazingly enough, that time is now!
One of these anti-aging research scientists, James Clement, CEO of Betterhumans Inc, has made it his life’s work. He is in pursuit of formulating treatments that will give us longer life spans, eliminate pain and chronic illness and very literally make us younger. Furthermore, he is set on making these treatments accessible and budget-friendly to everyone, not just the world’s elite. Now conducting clinical studies in Gainesville, Florida, and soon expanding his analytical lab from Florida to Texas, Betterhumans Inc is giving volunteer participants the opportunity to be involved and support this exciting moment in anti-aging science.
James Clement, a former lawyer, and entrepreneur has devoted the last two decades to studying the science of life extension – driven by a desire to be of service to humanity and a fascination with how to help us live longer healthier lives. His curious mind houses much more than just a wealth of knowledge about scientific research. After graduating college, he delved into politics, became a practicing attorney, and ran various for-profit businesses including a successful NY-based brewpub. The knowledge he accumulated through all of these fields provided just the foundation he needed when he arrived at his destination in the realm of anti-aging science and created a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization for accelerating the research of anti-aging and life extension. Clement’s projects included setting up and running the Supercentenarian Research Study in collaboration with the George Church Lab at Harvard Medical School.
Over the span of about six years, Clement met with and collected blood samples from about 50 individuals between 106 and 112 years of age from over fourteen US States and seven countries. He and Professor George Church released these whole-genome data files to researchers around the world in 2016, and in 2017 the Pulitzer-Prize journalist Amy Harmon wrote about Clement and his Supercentenarian Research Study for a feature article in the New York Times Science Section. Clement recounts that many of the Centenarian men and some of the Supercentenarian women he met had never been sick a day in their lives and were still living on their own, cooking their own meals and in one case still driving (in fact one such gentleman made a roughly 1,800-mile road trip by himself at age 106). The experience spurred him to set up a research lab of his own to help discover the factors that could allow everyone to enjoy “Super” health for as long or longer than these Supercentenarians.
Furthermore, he wanted to take those discoveries out of the lab and bring them to the clinic, so that doctors could learn about these therapies and patients could reap the benefits. This led him to set up an anti-aging clinical trials medical office in The Villages, Florida to help test therapies in humans under IRB-approved protocols. As a nonprofit, Betterhumans Inc. intends to champion developing free or low-cost treatments to end the suffering that accompanies increasing chronological age, by keeping one’s biological age youthful, for as long as possible.
In 2013, Clement founded Betterhumans Inc, as a nonprofit organization to – according to their website, “explore cutting edge medical therapies to slow down and, if possible, prevent the onset of age-related diseases and reverse existing conditions so that individuals can remain healthy for as long as possible.” The world-class group of scientific and medical advisors at Betterhumans are collaborating with researchers around the world with the mission to bring anti-aging health therapies to the masses at the lowest possible cost. Along with stem cell and gene research, Clement and his team have been studying cellular senescence, restoration of NAD+ levels, activating the health-preserving intracellular process called autophagy, reducing system inflammation with “biological” therapies like exosomes, and reprogramming old cells to youthful ones using the Yamanaka Factors and can turn old cells into (embryonic-like) induced pluripotent stem cells. The Betterhumans team, along with collaborators, regularly publish their findings in scientific journals.
When talking about the study they did using senolytic compounds in elderly patients with Osteoarthritis, back in 2018, Clement explained “Osteoarthritis in older people is primarily caused by the buildup of senescence cells that secrete proinflammatory signals into the body which causes chondrocytes (stem cells that replenish cartilage) not to work. Many types of stem cells wait for an environment where there are no inflammatory factors, and thus with senescent cells causing a constant state of systemic inflammation, cartilage slowly disappears in the body without being replaced.” While many research papers have been written about the use of senolytics, including a study by the Mayo Clinic in 2017 showing that senolytics effectively killed off cancer cells in mice, Clement noticed there had not yet been clinical trials to test this ample evidence in humans.
Conducting clinical tests, referred to as “translational science,” is the exciting last step before releasing these treatment therapies to the world. These tests and observations help serve to validate the safety and efficacy of the treatments and introduce these therapies to the public. Of course, such efforts would not be possible without volunteer participants who partake in these Institutional Review Board-approved studies, to help Clement and Betterhuman’s bring these studies forward to discover and optimize anti-aging therapies that will possibly not only benefit the participants but everyone.
Research Scientist James Clement is obsessed with helping others live healthy for as long or longer than Supercentenarians live (Emma Morano, whom Clement met and got a blood sample from in 2011, lived to 117, and the longest-lived woman, Jeane Calmant, lived 122 years). Through Betterhumans Inc, he is working to fulfill a vision of the future where we get to enjoy our family, friends, and vibrant health for 100 years or far, far more. To dive deeper into some of Clement’s scientific findings on how to slow aging, check out his newly released book, The Switch.
More importantly, If you dream of a future living longer, healthier, and disease-free, do your part by visiting the Betterhumans medical office website to enroll in their anti-aging clinical trials.
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